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From: Bill Helbron on 24 Dec 2005 13:09 I'm using a Samsung 913V Monitor and NVDIA GeForce FX 5200 card. Weh I go to Control Panel>Display>Display Properties>Advanced>SAMSUNG 913V and NVDIA GeForce FX Properties>Monitor, I can change apparently only the Screen refresh rate or uncheck the "Hide modes that this monitor cannot display" box. Do either of these apply, or is there somewhere else to look? Bill On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 10:20:56 -0500, "S. Taylor" <ravenshaATstis.net> wrote: >You should be able to "compress" the display to get the text back onto the >screen. >I've found that most (if not all) of the more modern monitors rememeber >different >setting for different display modes. >So compressing the view during post shouldn't effect the display of the xp >desktop. > >"Bill Helbron" <jw.helbron(a)verizon.net> wrote in message >news:rksgq1tmls02pdj3q4bnchl6a857heaf0g(a)4ax.com... >> Hi Mike, >> >> Thanks for the info! The main reason I asked the question in the first >> place is >> that I always noticed that the initial screen that came up was in a large >> DOS-like font and some of the text was actually off the left side of the >> screen. >> That's why I had thought it was resolution-related, but I didn't think >> about the >> fact that XP hadn't loaded yet! >> >> Bill >> >> On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 10:52:14 -0500, "Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)" >> <mikehalll(a)mvps.org> >> wrote: >> >>>Bill >>> >>>The initialisation screen is not DOS.. it may look like a screen running >>>DOS, but that is where it ends.. you must also bear in mind that Windows >>>has >>>not yet started, so any settings pertinent to your Windows installation >>>will >>>not have initialised at that point.. >>> >>>ALL computer systems run an initialisation screen at start up, whether >>>they >>>run Windows, UNIX, Linux, DOS etc.. none of the screens are attributable >>>to >>>DOS.. anything appearing on your screen at start up is generated by code >>>encapsulated in the system's BIOS ROM chip, and will appear completely >>>independent of whatever operating system is present on the system drive.. >>> >>>DOS was/is an operating system in it's own right, not a screen >>>appearance.. >>>if my memory serves me correctly, it was originally QDOS (Quick Dirty >>>Operating System), later changed to DOS (Disk Operating System) >>> >>>Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, and XP are not GUI (Graphical User Interface) >>>shells running on a DOS (DOS 7) base as per Microsoft Windows 9x/ME.. >>> >>>Some of the old DOS commands are available in Command Prompt, but that >>>does >>>not mean that DOS, the operating system, exists in XP.. what it means is >>>that some of the old, familiar DOS commands will still do something within >>>XP.. >
From: S. Taylor on 25 Dec 2005 20:37
Yes, i'm talking about the controls on your monitor itself. The Display properties windows only controls settings that are in effect when windows is loaded. Your monitor (on a desktop pc) will haves controls that are found either through a panel door on the bottom front, under the front edge or on the left-side front corner on the underside. "Bill Helbron" <jw.helbron(a)verizon.net> wrote in message news:e73rq1deikht7t71rh5igjr2pcjqjqm753(a)4ax.com... > I'm using a Samsung 913V Monitor and NVDIA GeForce FX 5200 card. Weh I go > to > Control Panel>Display>Display Properties>Advanced>SAMSUNG 913V and NVDIA > GeForce > FX Properties>Monitor, I can change apparently only the Screen refresh > rate or > uncheck the "Hide modes that this monitor cannot display" box. Do either > of > these apply, or is there somewhere else to look? > > Bill > > On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 10:20:56 -0500, "S. Taylor" <ravenshaATstis.net> > wrote: > >>You should be able to "compress" the display to get the text back onto the >>screen. >>I've found that most (if not all) of the more modern monitors rememeber >>different >>setting for different display modes. >>So compressing the view during post shouldn't effect the display of the xp >>desktop. >> >>"Bill Helbron" <jw.helbron(a)verizon.net> wrote in message >>news:rksgq1tmls02pdj3q4bnchl6a857heaf0g(a)4ax.com... >>> Hi Mike, >>> >>> Thanks for the info! The main reason I asked the question in the first >>> place is >>> that I always noticed that the initial screen that came up was in a >>> large >>> DOS-like font and some of the text was actually off the left side of the >>> screen. >>> That's why I had thought it was resolution-related, but I didn't think >>> about the >>> fact that XP hadn't loaded yet! >>> >>> Bill >>> >>> On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 10:52:14 -0500, "Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)" >>> <mikehalll(a)mvps.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>>>Bill >>>> >>>>The initialisation screen is not DOS.. it may look like a screen running >>>>DOS, but that is where it ends.. you must also bear in mind that Windows >>>>has >>>>not yet started, so any settings pertinent to your Windows installation >>>>will >>>>not have initialised at that point.. >>>> >>>>ALL computer systems run an initialisation screen at start up, whether >>>>they >>>>run Windows, UNIX, Linux, DOS etc.. none of the screens are attributable >>>>to >>>>DOS.. anything appearing on your screen at start up is generated by code >>>>encapsulated in the system's BIOS ROM chip, and will appear completely >>>>independent of whatever operating system is present on the system >>>>drive.. >>>> >>>>DOS was/is an operating system in it's own right, not a screen >>>>appearance.. >>>>if my memory serves me correctly, it was originally QDOS (Quick Dirty >>>>Operating System), later changed to DOS (Disk Operating System) >>>> >>>>Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, and XP are not GUI (Graphical User >>>>Interface) >>>>shells running on a DOS (DOS 7) base as per Microsoft Windows 9x/ME.. >>>> >>>>Some of the old DOS commands are available in Command Prompt, but that >>>>does >>>>not mean that DOS, the operating system, exists in XP.. what it means is >>>>that some of the old, familiar DOS commands will still do something >>>>within >>>>XP.. >> |